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It is this time of the year for many companies: Everybody is nervous, stressed as the auditors are in, requesting countless documents you may or may not have.

External auditors are breathing down my neck…
I need to get them on-time, accurate reports.

Many hours are spent digging into data, producing reports, generate data dumps for the auditors. Once they get the information, more countless man hours are spent providing additional information as the sampling did not produce the auditors were looking for.

Monitoring SoD security is tedious and reactionary.

Most of companies struggle or fail their audits because of the following challenges:

too many SoD violations

change control issues moving program changes to production that should not be there

the usage of your Emergency Id’s is not documented properly

User provisioning is done in a formal way

No accountability for changing user access due to lack of role ownership

Roles with conflicting transactions cause SoD issues

System Administrators and SAP Security staff have too much access

Manual methods are very time-consuming and require dedicated resources to pull reports.

Manually extracting data out of enterprise software products is complex and prone to errors.

Manual methods hurt the quality of the audit — often producing results with false positives, creating re-dos and more work for auditors.

Risks are managed mostly during the periodic audits and not proactively

This is just to mention a few. The most important issues, however ,that many companies have not kept up to date with SAP Security architecture for the following reasons:

SAP had been rolled out and the implementer has left the project without proper hand-over

Company has merged or business has been divested without considering SAP Security properly

Using of one-fits-all resource doing SAP Security, Basis and other chores at the same time

Business has changed and SAP Security has been patched as the original design doesn’t meet the new requirements

Users have changed position and new access has not been re-certified again but new roles have been added to previous job description

User access has been copied from user to user rather than redefined during on-boarding process

We are here to help you to make sense out of your SAP Security Landscape. Let us schedule a free discovery call to find out what your issues are and discuss what your option are.

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Our goal is to offer affordable solutions to SAP Customers that do not have the luxury of having a big SAP Security / Basis team. Sometimes small changes to your daily activities an free up more time for your team to perform tasks that are business critical and help them to focus on what is important.

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Did this article trigger some interest? If yes, feel free to contact me and let me know how we can help you.